Nipplegate: New Tomb Raider Delayed In US

If you’re more puritan than the average visitor to an art gallery and the sight (or mere mention) of a human nipple in some way offends you, please skip over this. Curry of Xboxic writes:

Janet [Miss Jackson, if you're nasty] may have had her own Nipplegate; now Tomb Raider: Legend publisher Eidos joins the fray. The game’s US release date of April 11th has been moved back after someone had posted textures of the game to a forum clearly showing nipples on a bare breast.

The game contains a chapter set in Tokyo, where several women are dancing in the distance. To keep it simple for the animators they had initially modeled all the women naked, so they could simply drape different dresses around them later. Why the breasts were there complete with nipples initially I don’t want to know, but the funny thing is that the developers did their work right: in the final version of the game that part of the texture is not even mapped to any points in the meshes. Translation for the less-technical people is that it is beyond impossible to see the breast in-game, you can only see it when you are ripping textures out of the game’s files. Or when you are reading Xboxic, because we have proof of course shown below.

What’s funny is that Eidos originally denied that this was even an issue, but Xboxic goes on to report:

Okay we weren’t surprised when Eidos denied everything in our Nipplegate article. Even Gamespot put a “bogus” mark on the article. But we don’t like being called liars, and as such I set the challenge to deliver us the original textures from the game. Well… here they are.

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